"I would like to switch to Linux, but it's just not good for gaming"

The issue has never been that games can't run on Linux. It has always been a simple question of "will the games I want to play run?" More than ever, that answer is yes, but if your favorite game doesn't, or if you never want to worry about "will this upcoming (online) game let me play on Linux?" then you use Windows by default.
Like, I love y'all, but the Linux gaming community on Lemmy is kinda insufferable with the straw-man "people think games can't run on Linux" argument. That's just not the issue
- This has been my concern too. It's great that we're seeing some specific cases where Linux benchmarks faster than Windows, but that doesn't mean a damn thing if the one thing I'm trying to play just full on won't work.
  Telling me that I can just also run Windows is counterproductive. If Windows will do everything I want, and Linux will do only some of what I want, now you're trying to sell me on increased complexity and difficulties and learning a whole new system, without actually getting rid of the problems that come with running Windows in the first place.
- way back the issue most certainly was that though. There was a time when trying to run games with wine was a frustrating exercise that only resulted in a success in small minority of cases... which meant the answer was almost certainly negative when accounting for the additional restriction of trying to run the games you actually wished to be playing. Not everyone may remember this of course.
  @neatchee @linuxgaming
- Exactly. If even one of my games doesn't run, it's already a pain in the ass. Might as well stay on windows so I don't have to deal with the headache. They all run on windows. I'll switch when they all run on Linux.
- well, thanks to Gaben, new games working fine
  
  That’s why they specified online, because the cancer that is Easy-Anti Cheat has a teeny tiny checkbox saying “allow linux users” that is rarely if ever checked.
  
  Oh yeah? Name 5.
- "Linux is great for gaming. You only need to follow these 25 kernel configuration steps to combine three 3rd party applications and it runs just fine!"
  
  Yeah it's not like that anymore.
  
  Step 1: Install Steam Step 2: Download games Step 3: Play games
  
  If you have an AMD GPU and use Steam it's mostly plug&play these days.
  
  Jam Mint or Pop OS on there and you will never in your life have to worry about a kernel to game. Not even once.
- The issue is they want to run rootkits and malware instead of games.
  Not sorry. Siege, Fortnite, Valorant, all of these games require kernel level access to Windows to run, and the publishers refuse to support Windows.
  The only reason I'd ever play games like this in the past is due to peer pressure from friends to play these shitty games together with a bunch of sweats, cheaters and an overall generally toxic community. Especially Siege.
  Social peer pressure goes both ways. And I've basically peaced out on any of these games in my friends group. That was enough to end that game for game nights, and as those games fade from our memory. I make sure what little memory of it remains is the true tainted and awful form from which they originated.
  If you need a kernel level anti-cheat for your game, and nothing else will protect it. Your game is shit, your development cycle is shit, your company is shit, your community is shit, and why would I ever want to play a shit game with shit people from a shit company that forces devs to work under a shit development cycle?
  
  That is not, in fact, the issue. I don't play any of those games and still can't play all my games on Linux. I don't allow kernel level anticheats on my system.
  
  Fortnite uses EAC that already run on Linux.
  
  You're actually the worst. I'm glad you don't play my games.
- If only one could have two OS on one machine and somehow boot into the one you want to play a game on.
  
  Sure, but at the point you’re doing that the allure is lost on a lot of folks.
  Why boot to two when they only want to play a game and one does it without needing the other.
  This is an answer to a question that wasn’t posed.
  
  All the inconvenience of Linux with all the inconvenience of Windows. You might as well throw MacOS on there, too.
  
  It's so weird, usually it's Mac users saying that to me.
  
  It's a hassle, most people are one size fits all
  
  That’s great until you decide you want to play more than one game and have to restart your computer 5+ times per day. Then you’ve somehow made the experience exponentially worse than staying on either one
- Mine is not an argument asserting that people think games can't run on Linux, mine is a mockery of the people who do so (I know several).
  I find you insufferable too, don't worry
  
  You are mocking a straw-man. These people you refer to number in the dozens

I've been 100% Linux for over a year now. If it doesn't run, I don't buy it.
- That's the attitude that we all need to have. Same here, if anything doesn't work on Linux, I ain't buying it.
  
  I even got a refund from steam when rocket league lost Linux support when that one company bought it
- Same been Linux only for several years now. If it won't run I won't buy it.
- Same, since 2013.
  I've found that often the game is listed as not linux, but runs fine with proton anyway. So I often buy, and refund if needed.
  
  That's what I do too.
  
  Huh, same here, give or take a year (I was 100% Linux before Steam came, which was sometime around 2013).
  I have never refunded a game though, ProtonDB is usually accurate so I just check there before buying.
- That’s how I’ve been for a few years now. Windows has serious bugs that I encounter all the time that I never encounter with Linux.
  Just this week alone… screenshots stopped working, usb microphones were stuck on mute, and the taskbar crashed preventing me from using any touchpad gestures or even accessing the start menu to restart.
  The task bar was fixed with a restart but the other two issues required a reinstall of the os. I troubleshot those for like an hour without any solution.
  
  Windows is not ready for the desktop.
  
  I know! I have to use windows at work (IT Admin) and using powershell always makes me wish the software we need ran on Linux. Just today I needed to extract a partition image with dism and it just did nothing for half an hour before the progress bar even came up. People say that Linux is buggy but gnome gives me way less headaches than windows 11.

Is this Lemmy's version of Reddit's "pc vs console" I've been seeing this a lot lately. Why are you all so obsessed with who plays on what and what their opinions are?
- Because more people playing on Linux means more games get published for Linux, which is an outcome we want.
  
  Gonna have to get in line behind consoles first. PC gamers have been around for years, still at the bottom of the list when games get published. So....what's the point in saying "play on Linux because games also work here" when publishers don't care?
- I just want more games to work on Linux, and more marketshare gets devs interested. I don't care what specific people use, just that enough use Linux to grow marketshare.
  Use what you want, but I'll encourage anyone who is interested to give it a try.
- Huh. Yes, that's exactly what it is.
  Good shout.
- It's like when you discuss music with a metalhead, it's not that you just don't feel anything when you listen to metal, and you don't consider complex polyrhythms to just be objectively "better" because they're harder to play. It's that your music sucks ass and if it's not the right kind of metal it also sucks ass.
  Linux can play most games, but if you like playing games that Linux doesn't play then those games suck and you shouldn't want to play them. That's their perspective.
  Why do you want to play Fortnite or CoD warzone? Don't you know kernel level anticheat is a rOoTkiT?!? (As if they could even define such a thing without resorting to just pointing at shit they don't like and twisting the definition like a Baptist preacher trying to create theology.)
  You can't win with these types of people, Linux can play games! And if it can't it's YOUR FAULT FOR NOT EXCLUSIVELY PLAYING GAMES THAT LINUX CAN PLAY.
  
  Nah, you're getting too deep into your own feelings. Most threads I've seen where people start talking about Linux as a viable gaming option, it's because some commenter or the OP mentions a problem they're facing in Windows, which is directly solved or mitigated in Linux. Also, most of the time when people recommend Linux, it comes with warnings like "it has a learning curve" and "not everything works". The hard line Linux-or-bust types are definitely not the majority.
  Also, the very nature of Lemmy means the userbase probably skews towards more techy types who have been using Linux in their professional lives for years and have naturally come to harbor positive feelings for it. That drives the recommendation as well as anything else.

I love Linux but it really does need more VR support.
- And racing sims. I was talking to someone on Bluesky and they said the lack of racing sim gear support is holding them back.
  
  That's the case for me, too.
  
  +1 on sims, with so many different peripherals as well as third party software like simhub, even if a base game works on Linux, it effectively doesn't since there is so much integration needed
- Yeah, I'd love to get a VR headset, but there just aren't even games to play on Linux, and the headsets with good Linux support are either expensive or hard to find.
  Hopefully that improves, I imagine it's stopping people from switching to Linux.
  
  Even the Index, Valve’s own headset has had broken functionality for years with no fixes in sight. Valve refuses to fix big stuff like the cameras, base stations not turning on, or even automatic audio switching.
  Not to mention steamvr reprojection is completely broken.
  
  Yeah, I just keep a windows partition for VR. In all of my experience with VR on Linux, it has been terrible and buggy which is just intolerable. I gotta be honest, its not smooth sailing on windows either, steam vr has some bugs they haven't fixed for years, so combining that with Linux just is not good.
  
  For me, I have been dual booting, but I have also had my linux set up for a few months now and was using it exclusively until i got my quest 3.
  I can definitely see the allure of just sticking to windows if one plays pcvr exclusively or if one just hasn't taken the plunge into linux yet.
  I really do hope that support comes. Either officially or unofficially by a linux savant who knows this stuff.

Hum 🤔
- Mine's similar (macOS is my work computer):
  And last year Linux and Steam Deck were flipped:
- It's also heavily skewed in my case due to online hours being the only hours counted, while I use my steamdeck away from internet most of the time.

There are still a lot of proton games where I encounter the weirdest bugs and when I report those the game devs don't do anything about it and say it's a proton/linux issue what they don't support. For some games, especially VR, windows is mandatory.
- You should report the bugs to the proton devs, not the game dev.
- I have a WMR headset, am still on a dual-boot of Pop!_OS and Windows 10 with my gaming pc. I have an Nvidia RTX 3080 and don't want to worry about compatibility with kernel so Pop!_OS fixes that for me. I also love window tiling, which it does pretty well (not as good as Sway and Hyprland but close enough).
  At this point, I can do everything on Linux except for 1 thing: Use my HP Reverb VR headset. It's a Windows (WMR) headset and doesn't work on Linux. But it is essential for my gaming, as about 80% of my gaming time is spent flying aircraft and helicopters in DCS: World in VR. I got a whole simpit setup with crazy good stick, pedals and throttle and everything.
  I am really hoping to switch the headset out for a SteamVR-native headset and ditch Windows before Windows 10 support ends in 2025. First step is to install DCS on Linux and start flying it outside VR to help find bugs and assess when it is good enough to switch VR headsets.
  And yes, I did consider upgrading to an AMD card for the improved Linux performance but the RX 7900 XT didn't do DCS in VR (on Windows) well, even after the big driver update this Summer that was supposed to fix the stutters.
- if you are having weird bugs when playing via Proton, report the issue on the Proton GitHub page. If it's a graphical glitch you can also report it to proton-vkd3d or DXVK depending on which one is being used by the game. If unsure just report it only to Proton.
  The Proton developers and the developers of associated projects (DXVK, vkd3d, etc) will often add workarounds into the various parts of the Proton platform to get a game to work correctly, even if the problem you are seeing is a game bug or driver bug.

I'm at 50 / 50. Went 100% Linux 6 months ago and never looked back. Didn't even bother with dual booting, it's all in or nothing.
- One of us! One of us!
  Windows is an abomination.

I won’t claim that it’s all flawless, because it really isn’t sometimes, but a lot of things just work. Both new games, and old ones, that don’t even work on windows to begin with.
My biggest two showstoppers are games like Destiny, and VR titles, that unfortunately are completely unplayable because I own a Rift S.
I still play practically everything else on Linux, and don’t see any reason to not to. I already do everything else on this os, so why would I switch
- There's a bunch of other things, like HDR; I don't have a HDR monitor so I can't say what people are missing, but I tried to mess with it in my pet-project game engine and vkSetHdrMetadataEXT just does not exist at all, and I don't know what library or Vulkan layer could provide it.
  It matches with what I've heard around, although apparently KDE supports it now?
  
  KDE support requires plasma 6 which is in alpha.
  
  I'm playing Cyberpunk2077 with HDR on my Steamdeck so support is there.

Linux Gamers - "Sure am stoked that gaming on Linux has gotten so good, finally don't feel like I need to keep Windows"
Randos - "Wow, such copium! It didnt work for my specific use case! Linux users are so obnoxious!"
- If your quote was the title of this post then the "randos" wouldn't show up. But it's not. 🤷
  
  Idk man, I get how you could read the title as confrontational, but every pro Linux post has these "randos". Haters gonna hate. 🤷‍♂️

100% penguin

I kind of dig Linux Os, I find Linux users insufferable.
- As a fellow Linux user I entirely agree. I stay off the forums as much as possible. My latest crime was uploading a tutorial on how to update the bios on certain laptop models. Got fucking roasted, even on lemmy.
  For some reason Linux forums are like stack exchange; an extremely toxic neckbeard pissing match.
  
  Oh shit, that sounds extremely helpful, why did they roast you?
  I've been using Linux since Ubuntu 8.10 iirc, and I'm still a fucking moron at dealing with Linux so I'm always thankful for people like you.
  
  I might have been very lucky. I've barely seen anything negative than when people post factually incorrect or potentially dangerous/bricking stuff.
  Though, I do keep a healthy distance from the Ubuntu and Arch forums.
- Eh, you'll get the worse of any userbase if you go to a community specifically for that OS. Go to PC Master race or whatever to see the opposite problem.
  I've been on Linux exclusively for something like 15 years, but I almost never bring it up. In fact, I don't even mention my distro of choice unless it's directly relevant, and if asked I recommend something different (I recommend Mint Debian edition because I've heard it's very user friendly).
  I also find many people in communities like this insufferable as well, so I spend my time trying to tone them down a bit with comments like "Linux isn't for everyone, but it'll always be there if you decide to give it another try." I use Linux because it works better for me than Windows, yet many here make it a religion or something. It's kinda weird.

Just Linux for me..I haven't used windows since windows 7. I'm probably going to sell my steam deck though because it mostly just sits in the case on top of my computer (where I usually play since my computer is plugged into my 50 inch bedroom TV. But the stream deck is nice and fun to play with.
- I'm the opposite, my computer is in the basement and my Steam Deck is next to my bed, so ~75% of my playtime is on the Deck.
  It's a cool device, but it's not for everyone.

I didn't get the "You played on more than 1 device". Guess it has been 100% Linux
- Note did I, so I assumed that was the case as well. I only have my Linux desktop with Steam.

Funny, I've actually never played BG3 on Windows. It's always been Proton. It works flawlessly.

Mine has some windows time from testing someone's computer after reinstalling.
- I think it's interesting most of your play time is on the Steam Deck, but you play a bunch of games on Linux. Are you just testing settings then?
  
  I think it's a lot of the same game on both, but some I only played on the deck. Some I switched back to desktop for sections where inconsistent frame rate was wrecking me like GoW Valkyries. Dave the diver was entirely deck. Also have a laptop but vulkan support is incomplete on haswell so some games were launched and crashed if they didn't have opengl.

What cope. I still run into countless compatibility issues which bars Linux from daily use for me. Stop trying to downplay proton compatibility, it just makes your arguments appear disingenuous.
I would fully switch over to Linux in a heartbeat if there was no compatibility problems.
- Even if it had full comparability, you won't have switched to linux. You don't need reasons to do it, except your own wish
- Eh, works fine for me. I have a lot of games to choose from, so I'm really not lacking on selection.
  That said, I totally get it if it doesn't work for the things you need. Use what works. Linux works better for me than Windows, so it's what I use.
- Which games? I don't think I've ever encountered a game that didn't run with Proton out of the box.
- first, file a report. so devs are aware of your problem.
  second, i feel you. i'm in the same situation. if i switch to linux right now, my stream deck will lose features and i probably on't be able to use my steering wheel anymore. plus i really struggled to install fusion360.
- Some game updates just break proton compatibility.

I was very confused because this chart didn't show up for me... then I realized that I'm 100% Linux and showing it would've been pointless.
Still, I'm very proud of it. Barring some games with arbitrary rootkit restrictions (suck my ass, Tim) and Adobe products (but Adobe can burn and die, so whatever), I've been able to completely transition to Linux.
- Most adobe things should work in Wine, no? At least they did a few years ago
  
  They don't anymore unfortunately. The best solution I've seen is using winapps for Linux, but even that relies on a Windows VM. Worth looking into though still imo, it's how I use the latest version of Excel for my work.
  
  The last time I tried, most applications started and didn't crash, but were mostly unusable. GPU acceleration was also right out.

Next year should be 100% Linux for me. Steam is dropping support for Windows 7 at the end of this year, and I don't have any other newer Windows PC to run Steam on.
- Nor do you want them. Windows 10 was pretty amazing when it was released, but now it's essentially just adware and spyware. They've added no new features for the benefit of the consumer, and have added thousands of changes for their snooping and ad-serving.

I would have played on Linux a bit more if I had enough space on my partition. Good thing I recently updated to 2 terabytes!
- Removing Windows frees up tons of space!
  
  ...and makes playing Destiny 2 impossible, unfortunately.
- 2024 - your year of the Linux desktop

Linux wasn’t very good for gaming in 2016 when I first tried it. Then I tried again in 2023 and only switch back because I can’t get foundry to be easy on my arch based system, so like 3 hours every other week and for the least intensive thing I run.
- Foundry the virtual tabletop? If so you can run it via docker fairly easily
  
  Well then I really need to learn how to use docker
- Eh, it worked well for me, but I'm easy to impress. I switched to Linux before Steam on Linux was a thing, and I made a Steam account when it came to Linux back in 2013. It was a bit unstable the first couple years, but by 2016 it was quite stable. I think my first Steam purchase was in 2015 (Rocket League I think? I don't recall), and almost everything before that was Humble Bundle keys.
  When Proton was released in 2018-ish, I suddenly had a ton more options, and I started to purchase way more games.
  Things are way better now, but I was ecstatic to finally have a gaming platform care about my OS.
- Arch really has like Apple level of hype and marketing.
  
  No it doesn't. It's mostly a passionate minority hyping it up, but there's pretty much no marketing.
  If any distro has "Apple level of hype and marketing," it's Pop!_OS or Ubuntu, because both have a large-ish company behind them actively pushing for user adoption. Your average Windows user is far more likely to have heard of either than Arch.
  I have no problem with Arch or Ubuntu, I used Arch for ~5 years and Ubuntu was my first (used for 2-3 years). I'm on openSUSE Tumbleweed now though because it ticks the boxes that are most important to me.
  
  The biggest company in the world vs dozen of fat nerds keeping a system as a hobby. Who would win?
  
  I wanted something with an easy to use wiki and Garuda fit my needs. Idk
  
  Lol Arch users mad.

Damn, mine also has a Windows slice this year because one of the games I was playing with my wife didn't run well enough on the Deck so we played it on her desktop. It runs on Linux, it's just that it was a bit on the heavy side for the deck so the fps were bad and her desktop was already plugged to the TV

The only game I play on Windows nowadays is Rocksmith 2014. That's because, due to the nature of the hardware, it is a bitch to setup even on Windows. Proton just isn't having any of it.

Steamdeck = Linus.
- Well... Yes but, the year in gaming circle graph differentiates between steamdeck and Linux, i only know because my pc runs only Linux.

Why are you using Windows for BG3? I've been using Pop!_OS and it runs perfectly.

Is this from Steam Review? Because mine doesn't have that part.
- It might not show up if you only play on one device.
  
  Ah I see, thanks for the reply! Guess I can proudly say 100% Penguin then. :)

It's a mix of baby duck syndrome and conformism.
- I wonder if that's why I like FreeBSD so much. I grew up with Windows, but someone in high school (old guy at the local community college I attended at the time) encouraged me to try FreeBSD and I really liked how different it was. I basically only use Linux now, but I still judge Linux by FreeBSD standards and I'd use FreeBSD if it had decent gaming support.
  Or maybe it's because FreeBSD rocks.

What video card are you using?
- Not the OP but I have a similar graphics on steam. Using X11 with KDE I was using a GTX 1660 super until november last year, this year I'm using a 6700xt both worked perfectly without any tinkering. KDE Wayland tho has a lot of issues with Nvidia (devs say that is the opposite, the Nvidia driver is shit). But apparently gnome implemented workarounds for Nvidia and their Wayland support is better.
- Radeon RX 580, or rather two of them: a "default" one, then one I use when running vfio-powered virtual machines or miscellaneous Vulkan projects I play with occasionally.
  It doesn't have all the newest features, but I run most games just fine.

I've been using Linux more and more recently but one thing that annoys me is my EndevourOS thinks the PC is not in when I'm playing games via a gamepad, therefore dims the screen and tries to sleep. How do I fix this? I'm honestly surprised I even need to.
- Gamemode should take care of that. I think it's enabled by default when you run games via lutris.
  https://github.com/FeralInteractive/gamemode
- KDE? You tried "Systemsettings > Power Management > Energy Saving > Dim Screen" maybe already? I don't have what you're describing either und Arch nor Endeavor.

This past weekend I installed Ubuntu on an old Dell laptop and Mint on an old Toshiba. I just want to be able to play Open RA with some friends.
It runs on Ubuntu, but not on Mint. I don’t have the specs of either laptop handy, but is this a software or hardware issue?
- Most likely a missing package or something, so software. If also depends on which version of Mint you got (Ubuntu or Debian based).
  Make a post here when you get time. If you can get a crash dump (e.g. run it on the terminal and copy the output), that'll help a ton in figuring out what went wrong.
  
  Aw! Well, right before I read this I started installing Ubuntu on the Mint machine.
  I have a third laptop I want to do this with, but I have to find a charger. I’ll try Mint again when I get to that.
  I’m just trying to set up my buddies with OpenRA so we can have LAN parties like it’s 1999

Where are you guys getting this pie chart data from?
- It's from Steam's 2023 Year in Review. It shows up at the top of the store page when you open their app.
  
  Mine doesn't show any pie charts, where do you find it? Does it only show if you played on more than one platform?
- Steam has a year in review thing, just log into the steam store and you should see it.

Until your obscure GPU driver said no and spend weeks trying to fix it but nothing work except getting called an idiot on stack overflow

Ever since I built my new PC a few months ago, my chart would be completely purple. I mostly play Indie games though, and they seem to have better Linux support
- Same here, I only had to run BG3 on Windows (in a VM) for very specific reasons tied to my setup.
  
  If you don’t mind me asking, what is the problem? I have heard (I am being patient and I haven't bought the game yet.) mostly good thing about running BG3 using Proton.

65% Linux, 19% VR and 16% Windows on my end, glad I contributed :3

Building a machine that does everything is coming to a household near you! The rest of us, well we've been building custom gaming machines for one or two games for a long time.
The tooling is just getting better everyday. I don't think Windows gaming will ever die but I think the experience has gotten bad enough that people have begun seeking alternatives. If this wasn't true I don't think that the SteamDeck would be so successful.
With that being said, I don't tell everyone to try Linux. I do think that Linux is good for gaming but just hard to use for most gamers. I'll probably buy a steam deck OLED in March just to "do my part" even though I have far too many custom machines and not enough time to enjoy playing the games.

Mine is 30% SteamDeck and 70% Linux 😂
- 90% Steam Deck over here, and 10% Linux.
  
  75% SD, 25% Linux here, last year it was the opposite.

I mostly play old games that struggle even in windows sadly. I'll probably need a windows machine or VM until I die.
- Compatibility with old games on linux is great, much better than it is for newer games. Those 2010 and earlier (all the way back to windows 95 or so) games that have trouble on Windows 10 generally work better on Linux than on Windows 10.
  For dos games you'd use dosbox on both Windows and Linux so the experience is mostly identical.
  You also get quality of life stuff such as: if a game starts at 640x480 on your 4k monitor, it doesn't change your desktop resolution to 640x480, it just gets scaled up to the full screen.
  Specifically check out the Lutris software: it has integrations to install and run your old games from GOG or the original discs onto Linux.
  
  Not for C&C's map editors. I've yet to find a way to run those anywhere other than Windows. They barely run there
- don't use linux myself, but i've heard wine has great backward compatibility with older games.
  but you probably tried installing them yourself, so...
  
  Yeah the C&C games don't run too well in it sadly. Don't know why someone down voted you, you're just trying to help :/

4% on linux
Sorry but multiboxing with a compatibility layer is pure cancer, for some reason proton just keeps gobbling up resources until the clients eventually become unplayable and need to be restarted.
alt tab doesn't work for switching and also MINIMIZE ON FOCUS LOSS? fuck you linux, absolutely fuck you.
- SDL_VIDEO_MINIMIZE_ON_FOCUS_LOSS=0 my brother.
  
  if it was that simple I might still be trying to make it work despite alt tab not working with instances hidden behind multiple launchers.

I'm waiting for the open razer project to support my mouse before I fully switch. I'd do it myself but I don't have the time these days.

- Nah, it's fine for just gaming, provided the games you want work fine. If you mostly play SP games, you'll probably be fine, but if you play MP, check first.
  That said, I would probably just get a console if I only used my PC for gaming. But I use it for a lot of other stuff, and I find Windows gets in the way. YMMV though, depending on what you need your computer to do.

I've finally decided to make a switch to Fedora, after giving up last time due to almost nothing I needed working.
I still didn't manage to get Unity working, which I unfortunately really need, and for some reason it's also not working in a Boxes VM, but I was really surprised with Steam! Not only every game I tried so far is working great (after solving some initial trouble caused by NVIDIA card), I also managed to just run the games I have pirated directly from the Windows drive, without having to reinstall them, by simply adding the .exw to Steam.
The only issue left is to solve missing cutscenes/videos, being replaced by that "TV color test" image. Has anyone managed to solve it? I've tried installing various codeks, but it didn't help.
The only thing I'm missing is Parsec, since I was pretty used to workong remotely through wake on lab and parsec, but I suppose that's solvable down the line. Oh, and everything being Electron apps, especially since i unfortunately need O365 stack for work. But its not that bad.
So far i love it, and have already set Fedora as my default boot. Only have to switch for Unity, as of now. I'll see how long it will last.
If anyones looking for a new year resolution, go give your favorite distro a try! And if you have an NVIDIA card and even after following a random guide you get stuttering or lagging text in Electron apps, as i did, try the other repository for the drivers, thats what solved it for me.
- I totally get it, even for me, someone who is pretty tech-savy, it took around three attempts in the last three years to switch to Linux, and I've always given up until now.
  But the issue is the reputation Linux gaming gets. I was convinced that I probably will have to dual-boot to play games, aside from a very small subset of games that may work. Every time I was trying to switch, I didn't even get to try any games just because I kind of assumed that it's going to be even bigger struggle than it was to get some of the tools I need to run, so I gave up.
  But this time I gave steam a try, and was really surprised that so far, every game I tried running, including some with Easy Anti Cheat, I had almost zero problems, with the only outlier being the cutscenes.
  Also, of course it's not a lot easier to just use Windows and game on it, but you pay the cost of privacy and Windows stuffing ads into your face, using increasingly darker patterns to push their bullshit. So, I'm not looking for an easier way to game, but doing it to not let anyone use my habits and data out of principle. I'm already used to minor inconveniences attachted to it, such as lack of cookies so you have to relog, VPN breaking default language on sites, or some apps not working properly on my phone (GrapheneOS). It's totally worth it for me, but it's not for everyone.
  So, my point was not to convince everyone that Linux is better for gaming. But to let people like me, who would like to try switching are afraid that they will still have to dualboot for most of the games, know that's not really the case novadays, and that Linux is perfectly fine for gaming.
  
  I think it's totally fair that people would want to stick with what they know and would find a new operating system intimidating. But, I think some of this push back is kind of warranted since people act like you can't play any games on Linux or that the Steam Deck is stupid because it has Linux and isn't compatible with absolutely every game, and I think that's sort of misguided. An astonishing amount of stuff just works these days, and while I wouldn't say a Windows user should switch to Linux unless they have a good reason to, I think some people might be doing themselves a disservice if they're avoiding the Steam Deck because they think it won't play their games (with caveats about anti-cheat and multiplayer of course!)
  
  I really can't, for anyone who considers themselves tech savvy. At this point it isn't "some specific apps run great and the rest is a hassle", but the other way around: some specific apps are a hassle but the rest runs great. Sure, you should do a bit of research if your usecases are already 'solved', if you want to do an all-or-nothing switch. But you can also do a dual boot, if there really ends up being something that isn't solved on linux.
  I just keep getting surprised with how little people apparently care about their privacy.

This is why tell people who ask why I don’t use Linux, “because.”
- Use what you want.
  I use Linux because I like it, games are just a bonus. I've been Linux only before Steam came to Linux, and I'll be here if it ever leaves. It works well for me.
  
  And you are a champion among men but there will forever be an obnoxious minority that will never be able to cope with the fact that other people don’t share their preferences.

mmmm call me back when cyberpunk 2077 can hold a stable 30FPS at 1440p on steam deck settings on my laptop's 3070Ti.
- Cyberpunk runs astonishingly well on my desktop at the same resolution with an AMD 5700XT, maybe its the Nvidia drivers causing issues.
  
  Linux users stopping reading a post asking for help and reaching for the downvote button as soon as they see the word Nvidia. Nice to see some things don't change.
  
  from what i know, you can either install official nvidia drivers or ones the community wrote.
  sounds like they're using community drivers. because they typically don't perform very well.

Kernel Level Anti-Cheat. If you don't understand that, then you don't know if Linux is good or bad for "gaming".
Basically everything you want to play on Linux, that is not supported by the anti-cheat kernel is screwed.
"Steam offers all these game to play on Linux" - yes, but I played them all 20 years ago.
Try playing something like Genshin Impact. You cannot, the anticheat is Windows only. (PS and consoles, it relies on anticheat mech's from the HW). They don't offer a Linux version - so you are screwed.
Does it have EAC or Battleeye? You are shit out of luck.
The Linux Desktop is ready for primetime, but not for gaming. You need a windows boot for gaming, unless you are playing Half-Life..
- Wait, you're saying you like Windows specifically so that you can give miscellaneous companies the highest level of privileged access to your computer, a power which they say they want to use to check that you aren't cheating. That's the reason you want to use Windows?
  
  No, you total bell end.
  I support and do everything in Linux, and I can. But I cannot play games I want to play. I have to use windows to play what I want to play, because companies that make games do not support Linux.
  How fucking retarded are you?
  Never mind, you are probably just another aimbot using n00b in some old game that still runs on Linux, that no one cares about anymore.
- You're right about kernel-level anticheat like Vanguard not working, but there is EAC support for Linux; see Apex Legends.
- Genshin does work in linux since a few months ago from what i heard